"Wow. Wow. Wow, Mayor Bloomberg. Wow. I love this idea you have of banning soda. It combines the draconian government overreach people love with the probable lack of results they expect," Stewart said, laying the irony on thick.

"What are you doing!?"

For Stewart, Bloomberg's proposed soda ban put him in a particularly tough position: being forced to concede a point to a political adversary who blasted Bloomberg's idea on Fox News.